Seeing as nobody seems to answer questions quickly here, can someone point me to a good snooker chat forum or something like that. I have a lot of questions about this game and a lot of time since theres no school til tuesday. My dad is not home so i cant ask him.

Would be helpful if someone who knows can answer my questions here to save me typing it again on the snooker forum. Ive already found out that this guy i was on abouts name is Ronnie O'Sullivan and he got beat by Alan so no need to answer that one. But answer the others pls.

To answer your questions, John Higgins and Alex Higgins are not related (John is Scottish, Alex is from Northern Ireland), and as for why Allen plays like that, it's just what is comfortable for him I guess.

So who is this sites owner, I looked up for Dave Hs playing snooker and found a Dave Harold. Is this him? Its a good site Im impressed. Will read the old stories hes posted. Good that snooker players take the time for the fans of the sport they love.

Fair play to Mark Allen for his snooker this week and for sending Ronnie back to his sad little life!

How many times at the Crucible 2 table stage have we seen a player open a massive lead only for the other player to suddenly find his game and stage a mini-recovery only to be put out of their misery? Happened twice this year, before that Andy Hicks springs to mind: 3 centuries in a row in his world semi during his mini recovery!

Dave H - what was your take on firstly Jamie Cope and secondly the two Chinese players?

As no one has answered your question about Mark Allen's "head over his cue" I'll attempt to answer it. I've been lucky enough to referee him quite a few times and I "know" him a little bit.

The main reason for him holding his cue under 1 eye is that you should always "cue up" with the cue under your dominant eye. Some players (Hendry for instance) have 2 eyes that are equally strong, but most people have 1 eye that is more dominant.

Should you have a (for instance) left eye that's dominant but still hold the cue right down the middle of your chin, you'll often misjudge the potting angle on balls since you're basically sighting the angle wrongly.

To compensate for this you should find out what your dominant eye is and cue up under that one.

Cool thanks Jurgen! Lucky I clicked back on this post. That actually makes a lot of sense. I thought it was just me or the camera angle that made it look odd but good to hear there is a logical explanation for it.

I think thats one of the most interesting things Ive heard to do with snooker. Just looked up dominant eye on google and theres all sorts of info on it. I love stuff like that and optical illusion type things!

Will try to find out what my dominant eye is! There are some tests on the internet but I think Ill know for sure if or when I get my table!

Thanks! Must be really interesting to see a game from close up especially refereeing. I will try to go to see it live soon and see if I can pick up things like these that arent so obvious on tv.